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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: linux-pm@lists.osdl.org, linuxppc-dev list <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: [linux-pm] windfarm got signal
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 13:13:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1150974836.16258.29.camel@johannes> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200606221303.19860.rjw@sisk.pl>


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On Thu, 2006-06-22 at 13:03 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > I think it's the way the freezer works ... it sends a pseudo signal to
> > all kernel threads who are then supposed to do something like test for
> > PF_FREEZE or something like that.
> 
> Yes.  More precisely, they are supposed to use try_to_freeze().
> 
> Please see Documentation/power/kernel_threads.txt.

Thanks, I'll look and submit a patch. It does try_to_freeze() but also
checks for pending signals.

johannes

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-06-22 11:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-20 23:51 windfarm got signal Johannes Berg
2006-06-22  6:02 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-06-22 11:03   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-06-22 11:13     ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2006-06-22 11:34       ` [linux-pm] " Johannes Berg
2006-06-22 12:33         ` Nigel Cunningham
2006-06-27  7:44         ` [linux-pm] " Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-06-27 18:17           ` [PATCH] fix windfarm core thread wrt. signal handling Johannes Berg
2006-06-27 22:07             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-06-22 13:12 ` windfarm got signal Pavel Machek
2006-06-23 10:05 ` [PATCH] windfarm: proper try_to_freeze / signal_pending handling Johannes Berg

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